Landscape care and maintenance services · Virginia

VA - Sterling

Sterling, VA · ~62 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VA - Sterling runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade B.

VA - Sterling: 2.3 TCR = 51% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VA - Sterling safety composite

VA - Sterling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

VA - Sterling: 1.6 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2024

VA - Sterling's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.6 in 2023 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Sterling, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 51% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #27/86
  • PHOTO BEST LANDSCAPES, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BEST LANDSCAPES, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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VA - Sterling in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows VA - Sterling averages 2.3 TCR (51% of the Landscape care and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

VA - Sterling TCR series: 2023=1.6 · 2024=3 · BLS 4.5

Where VA - Sterling falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 86 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Virginia.

VA - Sterling (62 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate VA - Sterling
VA - Sterling (62 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

VA - Sterling has more employees than the Landscape care and maintenance services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · VA · Sterling

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 222 employers in Sterling, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR BEST LANDSCAPES, LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR OC/IE Yard 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zionsville 38370 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5275 - Greenwood 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Delrick Corporation 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spruance Genco,LLC 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2014090 - Dulles Railyard & Maint. Fac. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chesapeake Bay Contractors, LLC. 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DDC4 868 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Dulles 007 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prospect Waterproofing Company 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2038 421 FTE
NAT-TCR Life By Design Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Brigade Fire Solution , LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Equipment Depot Texas, Inc. - Austin 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Gladwin City County Transit 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Niello Audi 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Box Delivery LLC 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jefferson Elementary School 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Higgins Group Corp 62 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.